Overview
The children will use a kit to create a banana split as they add sounds to the -it ending to make words such as kit, bit, split, and sit.

Literacy Activities
Make a banana split

• Cut out the Banana Split Kit graphics and place them in a "kit" container at the front of the room.
• Pre-assemble one completed banana split kit and display it somewhere near the kit for the children to reference throughout the activity.
• Tell the children that they will be building their own banana split by taping each of the ingredients from the banana split kit on the whiteboard (or a posterboard).
• Read the Banana Split Kit Recipe with the children and have them place the individual pieces on the board according to the directions.
• Emphasize the -it words in the recipe.

More Practice
Identify, blend and manipulate sounds

• Have children blend individual sounds into words by tapping their head (beginning sound) and toes (-it sound) then clap to say the whole word.
  • b it = bit
  • s it = sit
  • f it = fit
  • k it = kit
• With word blending cards, have the children make new words by changing the vowel or either of the consonants:
  • Change the beginning sound: bit → sit; sit → fit; fit → kit
  • Change the ending sound: bit → big; sit → sip; kit → kid
  • Change the middle sound: bit → bat; sit → set; fit → fat
• Once the children feel comfortable with the blending, invite them to write an -it word on their ice cream scoops, with one letter on each scoop.

Read target words in a text

• Read the Banana Split Kit Recipe target text together as a group. 
• Read the text again fading support.
• Have the children underline the words that end in -it.